APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

GUIDRY

[GIH-dree]

ACADIA

Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure arrived at Port-Royal soon after the first census of 1671 and married an Indian, Kesk8a, in c1680.  She gave him a daughter.  In c1681, he married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas and widow of Martin Dugas, at Port-Royal.  By 1686 they had moved to Mirliguèche, today's Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, near Cap-Sable, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  By 1695 they had returned to Port-Royal.  In 1708 they were back on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, at La Hève.  They had 11 children, including four sons who married and created families of their own:

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born either at Port-Royal or Mirliguèche in c1684, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy, in the early 1700s.  They settled at La Hève, up the coast from Mirliguèche.  They had four children, including two sons, Claude and Joseph, who married into the Lejeune, Moïse, and Benoit families.  Jean-Baptiste ran afoul of British authorities in the 1720s.  He was hanged for piracy at Boston in November 1726 along with his eldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils and three Mi'kmaq Indians.  Jean-Baptiste, père was 42.  His son was still in his teens

Augustin, born probably at Mirliguèche in c1690, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Hébert, in c1722.  They settled at Cobeguit.

Pierre dit Grivois, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Brasseaux, in c1722 at Port-Royal, where they remained. 

Youngest son Paul dit Grivois, born at Port-Royal in c1701, married Anne-Marie dite Nanette, another daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy, in c1720.  They moved to Baie des Espagnols on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, by 1752, probably to be free of British authority. ...

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Like most old Acadian families, Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds. ...

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Descendants of Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure were among the earliest Acadians who immigrated to Louisiana.  The first of them came with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  After a brief stay in New Orleans, they followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.. ...

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

More Guédrys came to Louisiana in 1767 and 1768 from exile in Maryland. ...

Most of the Guédrys who immigrated to Louisiana came from France aboard four of the Seven Ships of 1785 nearly a generation after the first ones arrived. ...

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Guidrys in the upper valley of Bayou Lafourche. ...

CONCLUSION

In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Guédry to Guidry.  The family's name also is spelled Geddry, Gidri, Guidri, Guidrie, Guitry, Lledri. 

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 588-92, 1490-92, 2236, 2499-2502; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 14, 18; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 103, 184; White, DGFA-1, 771-74; White, DGFA-1 English, 158.

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Anne-Laurance [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her widowed father & 3 half-brothers; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that, in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she was born aboard ship, & that all of her family survived the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Laurence-Anne GUÉDRY, says her godparents were Xavier BOURG & Francoise HÉBERT, & lists her family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls her Anne-Laurence [GUÉDRY] & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls her Anne-Laurence, sa [Charles GUÉDRY's] fille, age 26, on the embarkation list, Ana Lorenza, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Anne-Laurence GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 26, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her widowed father & 3 half-brothers; BRDR, 2:338 (PCP-19, 12), her marriage record, calls her Ann GUÉDRY of St.-Servant, St.-Malo, gives her & her husband's parents' names, calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, says her parents were residents of East Baton Rouge, that her husband's parents also were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean GOUDREAU & Pierre GUÉDRY. 

Although her marriage was recorded in the Pointe Coupée church, it probably took place at the southern edge of the Baton Rouge district, where their families settled.  The Baton Rouge district did not have a church of its own until 1793, so priests from Pointe Coupée officiated at baptisms, weddings, & funerals there until it did.  

02.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Augustin GUÉDRY, & lists him singly.  Why?

03.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Charles GUÉDRY, & lists him with no wife, 3 sons, & a daughter; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, all of his family survived, including wife Madeleine HÉBERT, age 32, son Antoine, age 5, daughters Marguerite, age 6, & Anne-Dorathé, age 2 mos., who was born aboard ship, Francois-Xavier BOURG, age 20, & Marie BROS, age 12, fille d'un 1er lit de Madeleine; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-78, Family No. 463, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, details her birth & baptism, gives his parents' names, says he was a carpenter & ploughman, details his first marriage, calls his first wife Madeleine HÉBERT, does not give her parents' names but gives her first husband's name, says she was born c1726, that they married c1751 but gives no place of marriage, says she died 23 Apr 1760 & was buried 24 Apr 1760 at Bonnaban, details his second marriage, including his second wife's parents' names, does not say when or where she died, includes the birth/baptismal & marriage records of daughter Marguerite by his first wife, born 9 Mar 1752, Louisbourg, Île Royale, married 22 Aug 1780 to Jean-Charles BOUDROT, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Antoine by his first wife, born c1754 but gives no birthplace, daughter Laurence-Anne by his first wife, born 1 Jan 1759, baptized 16 Mar 1759, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Xavier BOURG & Francoise HÉBERT, son Pierre-Jean by his second wife, born A.M. & baptized 18 Feb 1762, LaGouesniere, godson of Ambroise LONGUESPÉE & Marie-Francoise BOURG, son Joseph by his second wife, born & baptized 21 Mar 1766, St.-Servan, godson of Jean LONGUEPÉE & Marie HENRY, son Jean-Pierre by his second wife, born & baptized 28 Jan 1768, St.-Servan, godson of Pierre FOREST & Marie HENRY, son Jacques-Servais by his second wife, born & baptized 7 Mar 1770, St.-Servan, godson of Jacques HEUZE & Marguerite GUÉDRY, & son Théodore-Félix by his second wife, born & baptized 27 Nov 1773, St.-Servan, godson of Théodore TÉRRIOT & Félicité AUCOIN, says he, his first wife, stepdaughter Marie-Madeleine BRAUD, & daughter Marguerite were residing at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, says he, his first wife, stepdaughter Marie BRAUD, daughters Marguerite & Anne-Dorothée & son Antoine disembarked at St.-Malo from du Supply on 9 Mar 1759, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, details his birth, says he was baptized "in the Parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Port Royal in Acadie," which was the parish for the lower river, says he was a carpenter, gives his parents' names, says he married Madeleine HÉBERT c1745, that she was born c1726 & died in 1760, details his marriage to Agnès BOURG, says she was born c1736 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says she died on 4 Oct 1782 at "les Haunt-Pavee," age 46, & was buried 5 Oct 1782 at St.-Similien, Nantes, includes the death/burial record of son Théodore from his second wife, died age 2 & buried 22 Jan 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, the birth/baptismal & marriage records of daughter Marguerite-Victoire, baptized 9 Mar 1752, Île Royale, resident of St.-Similien, Nantes, married Jean-Charles BOUDROT 22 Aug 1780, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Charles GUÉDRY, cieur de long, age 57, on the embarkation list, Carlos GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Charles GUÉDRY, pit sawyer, age 57, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with 3 sons & a daughter. 

His wives' names also can be found in the marriage records of his children in BRDR, 2:338-39, 341.

Why did Francois-Xavier BOURG travel with Charles's family aboard Supply in 1758-59?  Does Francois-Xavier's association with Charles GUIDRY have anything to do with Charles's marrying Agnès BOURG in 1761?  Agnès & Francois-Xavier were not siblings, so they may have been cousins.  

How was he kin to Jean GUIDRY, who also went to LA aboard Le Beaumont?  Were they brothers?  Cousins?

04.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Claude GUÉDRY; White, DGFA-1, 773, give his birth year & parents' names; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows that as a result of the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he lost his first wife, Anne LEJEUNE, age 34, at Châteauneuf 18 Apr 1759 nearly 3 months after they reached France, as well as 2 of their 5 children--son Charles, age 3, who also died at Châteauneuf, 15 Apr 1759, & son Augustin, age 10 months, who died 28 Feb 1759, a little over a month after they reached St.-Malo, but 3 of his children survived the terrible crossing--sons Jean-Baptiste, age 9, Joseph, age 7, & Pierre[-Janvier], age 5.

His father & older brother, also named Jean-Baptiste, were hanged for piracy in Boston when Claude was 12 years old.  

He probably moved from Bayou des Écores to the Baton Rouge district because one his older sons by his first wife, Pierre-Janvier, had settled there.

05.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Élisabeth GUÉDRY.

06.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Firmin GUÉDRY.

07.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Francois [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Francois, son [Jean-Bte GUÉDRY's] fils, age 4, on the embarkation list, Francisco, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Francois GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, age 4, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadians Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Franco, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Francois GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with his father, 2 siblings, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:208, 334 (SM Ch.: v.5, #126), his marriage record, calls him Francois GUIDRY of Nantes, gives his & his wife's parents' names as well as the name of his wife's first husband, says both of his parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, that his wife was from du bas [on the lower] Vermilion, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Evan BOWLES, Denis & Eugene CARLIN.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

His parents were dead by 1791.  His mother may have died soon after reaching New Orleans; note that she was not with the rest of the family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont.  His father probably waited at New Orleans for the third ship, Le Beaumont to arrive with relatives & followed his brother Joseph to Ascension, where Francois appears with the family of uncle Joseph GUIDRY in 1791.  So his widowed father was dead by then.

08.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Francois GUÉDRY.

09.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & a brother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jaques, son [Jean GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 17, on the embarkation list, Santiago, su [Juan GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jaques GUÉDRY, his [Jean GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 17, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & in the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents & a brother, details his marriage in LA but does not include his wife's parents' names or the date or place of marriage, & says he was buried 15 Oct 1801, age 34, but gives no place of burial; BRDR, 2:342 (SJA-4, 19), his death/burial record, calls him Santiago GUÉDRY, age 34 years, husband of Maria BONVILIN, & gives his parents' names.

Where is his marriage record?  A Donato FREDERIC married a Marie BONVILLAIN, daughter of Jacques BONVILLAIN & Charlotte ST. IVE, at St.-Jacques on 13 Jul 1789.  See BRDR, 2:105, 299 (SJA-2, 6).  There is no doubt that the Marie BONVILLAIN who supposedly married Donato FREDERIC was the same Marie BONVILLAIN who married Jacques GUIDRY.  The birth/baptismal record of Pedro GUIDRY, son of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 9 Apr 1797, in BRDR 2:342 (SJA-3, 152), calls the boy's maternal grandparents' Santiago BONVILIN & Carlota SANTIVE [ST. IVES].  The birth/baptismal record of Escolastica [Scholastique] GUIDRY, daughter of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 19 May 1799, in BRDR, 2:338 (SJA-3, 183), gives the same maternal grandparents.  The birth/baptismal record of Pablo Santiago (Paul-Jacques) GUIDRY, son of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILIN, dated 2 May 1802, in BRDR, 2:342 (SJA-3, 237), also gives the same maternal grandparents.  So there is no question about the identity of Jacques GUIDRY's wife.  

Marie's putative first husband, Donato FREDERIC, must have died very soon after he married her because the birth/baptismal record of Genoveva (Geneviève) GUIDRY, daughter of Santiago GUIDRY & Maria BONVILAIN, dated 22 Aug 1790, in BRDR, 2:339 (SJA-3, 36), says that the girl was born 27 Jun 1790.  Subtracting 9 months from the girl's birthday, one gets Sep 1789 as her conception date, only 2 months after Marie supposedly married someone who was not the girl's father!  One suspects that there may be a mistake in the 13 Jul 1789 marriage record at St.-Jacques recorded in SJA-2, 6--that the groom in the marriage record should be not Donato FREDERIC but ... Jacques GUIDRY.  Note that in this marriage record, Donato's parents are given as Juan [FREDERIC] & Maria LEBLANC "of St. Peter of Micvant," wherever that is.  Hmmm.  This sounds a lot like Jacques GUIDRY's parents--Jean GUIDRY & Marie LEBLANC.  Either the priest at St.-Jacques made a mistake, or this is a transcription error on the part of the good folks who edited that volume of the Baton Rouge Diocesan Records.  Santiago & Donato sound similar.  But where did they get the surname FREDERIC?  It does not sound like any of the variants of GUÉDRY/GUIDRY.  

10.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jacques-Servais GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Jacques HEUZE & Marguerite GUÉDRY (his older sister), & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jacques [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jacques, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, journallier, age 15, on the embarkation list, Jacques, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jacques GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, day laborer, age 15, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:46, 339 (ASC-2, 74), his marriage record, calls him Jacque GUIDRY, gives his parents' names & the name of his wife's first husband but not her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ramon BRAUD, Henriette BLANCHARD, & Joseph LEBLANC dit Dubour.

11.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife & 2 sons; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean GUÉDRY, califat, age 50, on the embarkation list, Juan GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, calker, age 50, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife & 2 sons, details his son Jean's marriage in LA, including his son's wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, details his son Jacque's marriage in LA but gives no marriage date or place, & says son Jacques was buried 15 Oct 1801, age 34, but gives no place of burial.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 53, 79, 131, 179.

His birth year is based not on the passenger list of Le Beaumont but on a compromise of the ages given in the Ascension census of 1791, the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797, & the Lafourche census of 1798.  

How was he kin to Charles GUIDRY, who also sailed to LA on Le Beaumont but went to the Baton Rouge district with the majority of the passengers from that ship?  Were they brothers?  Cousins?  He was too old to be one of Charles's sons.

12.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & a brother; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean, son [Jean GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 27, on the embarkation list, Juan, su [Juan GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, his [Jean GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 27, on the complete listing, says he was in the 25th Family on the embarkation list & in the 26th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents & a brother, & details his marriage in LA, including his & his wife's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 2:110, 340 (SJA-2, 2), his marriage record, calls him Juan & Juan Femia GEDRI, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says all 4 parents were from "St. John Island, Can.," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Josef COLOETR [CLOUÂTRE] & Maria MICHEL.

13.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Pierre FOREST & Marie HENRY, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Jean [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Jean, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, journallier, age 17, on the embarkation list, Jean, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, day laborer, age 17, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings.

14.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY.  De Ville, Acadian Coast, 1779, 29, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436, also call him Jean-Baptiste, but other sources, including Arsenault, Généalogie, 2499, 2500, call him Jean.  See, for example, Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18.  Arsenault also calls his parents Jean-Baptiste & Anne-Madeleine, but Wall of Names calls them simply Jean & Anne.  His birth year is a compromise of the ages given in the censuses at Ascension in 1770 & 1777.  The age given in the Spanish report of 1768 is too young if he served in the militia in 1779.  See De Ville, Acadian Coast, 1779, 29, 35; Robichaux, pp. 7, 18; Voorhies, p. 436.

15.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife, 3 children, & a mineure au dit named Margueritte, no surname given; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for his father's profile, above; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Jean Bte GUÉDRY, charpentier, age 36, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, carpenter, age 36, on the complete listing, says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his wife, 3 children, & mineure au dit Marguerite GUÉDRY, details his marriage, & says that son Pierre-Jean-Marie was baptized in 1776 but gives no place of baptism, & daughter Marguerite-Félicité was baptized in 1785 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Juan Bautista GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with no wife, 3 children, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa; <acadian-cajun.com/ship3.htm>, calls him Jean-Baptiste GUEDRY, & lists him with no wife, 3 children, & an orphan, with the notation "... this family is from Le Bon Papa."  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

If he crossed on Le Bon Papa, which reached New Orleans in July, why is he also on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont, which arrived in August?  Where was his wife on the Le Beaumont debarkation list?  Did she cross with them on Le Bon Papa, the first ship, die soon after they reached New Orleans, he then waited for relatives to arrive on the third ship, Le Beaumont, & took his family to Ascension with older brother Joseph?  Jean-Baptiste does not appear on any LA censuses, so he must have died soon after his wife did, leaving their children to be raised by relatives.  The clue that Jean-Baptiste took his children to Ascension is son Francois's appearance in the 1791 census there with the family of uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  What happened to Jean-Baptiste's 2 younger children, who also do not appear in any LA censuses?  They, too, probably died soon after they reached the colony, & only Francois survived to carry on the line.

16.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Pierre [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, does not give his godparents' names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Jean-Pierre, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, age 4, on the embarkation list, Juan Pedro, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] son, age 4, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:223a, 340 (ASM-2, 61), his marriage record, calls him Juan Pedro GUIDRY of Nantes, France, calls his wife Mariana DASPIT of New Orleans, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Valentin SOLET & Santiago VERRET.

17.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY.  Arsenault, Généalogie, 2499, says that Joseph GUIDRY, son of Augustin GUIDRY & Jeanne HÉBERT, married Élisabeth COMEAUX in 1767.  This is verified by the marriage record in Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171, & Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 424.  Arsenault says that Élisabeth was the mother of his sons Donat, Joseph, & Alexandre.  Arsenault also says that this same Joseph GUIDRY married a second time, to Monique DUPUIS, daughter of Jean DUPUIS & Anne BREAUX, 24 May 1773, at St.-Jacques, & that Monique was the mother of his daughters Félicité & Judith.  However, the St.-Jacques census of 1777 shows that Élisabeth COMEAUX was still very much alive 4 years after Joseph was supposed to have remarried & that Élisabeth seems to have been the mother of sons Donnat age 8, Joseph age 7, Alexandre age 5, & daughters Felicitee age 3, & Judicq age 1.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 14.  There is a marriage record for a Joseph GUIDRY, son of Augustin GUIDRY & Anne HEBERT, marrying Monique DUPUY, daughter of Jean DUPUY & Anne BRAUD, at Ascension, not St.-Jacques, 24 May 1773.  See BRDR, 2:340.  Since men back then were not allowed to remarry unless their wives were dead or their marriage was annulled, & the latter case was exceedingly rare amongst Acadians, the Joseph GUIDRY who was married to Élisabeth COMEAUX could not have been the son of Augustin & Jeanne/Anne despite Arsenault's claim.  On top of all that, a Joseph GUIDRY appears in the Ascension census of 1770, age 30 & single, then reappears at Ascension again in the census of 1777, age 45[?!], with wife Marie DUPUIS, not Monique, when the other Joseph GUIDRY was counted at St.-Jacques still married to wife Élisabeth COMEAUX.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18.  Thus, there had to have been 2 Joseph GUIDRYs in the river settlements at this time, as reflected in this listing.  Wall of Names, 18, agrees, listing 2 Joseph GUÉDRYs without wives or children.  To complicate matters further, there was a Joseph GUIDRY, evidently unmarried, at Atakapas in Apr 1766.  This Joseph GUIDRY in fact appears on a list of Acadians who exchanged card money in New Orleans, Apr 1765, so  he came to LA in Feb 1765 with the party led by Joseph BROUSSRD dit Beausoleil.  See <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>.  Since all the other Joseph GUIDRYs who came to LA--there were 4 more of them!--did not arrive until 1785, the Atakapas GUIDRY is likely one of the river settlement GUIDRYs. 

The record is clear:  it was Monique, not Marie, DUPUIS who married Joseph GUIDRY of Ascension.  See their marriage record in BRDR, 2:272.  Arsenault, p. 2499, agrees.  So why is Joseph's wife called Marie, her sister's name, in the Ascension census of 1777?  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 18.   Strange.

18.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY 2.  See note 17, above.

19.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife & 4 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote to his father's profile above; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 46-47, Family No. 91, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, says he was born c1752 "in the parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's birth year, birthplace, & parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal record of daughter Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, baptized 20 Dec 1774, Monthoiron, Vienne, goddaughter of Vincent AMIRAULT & Marie LEBLANC, & details the families participation in the Leigne les-bois settlement in Poitou in the 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, says he was born c1749, does not give his parents' names, says he was a calker & seaman, that he married c1774, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Jeanne, baptized 20 May 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, daughter Marguerite, died age 3 & buried 14 Mar 1778, St.-Martin, Chantenay, son Joseph, fils, baptized 11 Jul 1783, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & daughter Reiné-Élizabeth, baptized 20 Jan 1785, Paimboeuf, details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the 1770s, & their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, califat, age 36, on the embarkation list, Josef GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, calker, age 36, on the complete listing, says he was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his wife & 4 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, but does not give a place of marriage, & says he owned 6 arpents of land but does not say where or when.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

The daughter named Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, born in the Poitou region of France in 1774, was the one who, called Marguerite, died at age 3 & was buried at St.-Martin, Chantenay, in Mar 1778.  She was not the daughter Marguerite, born c1778, who went to LA with the family in 1785.  The second Marguerite probably was named for her dead sister.

Who was the Olivier in his household at Assumption in1795?  The birth year of this Olivier does not match the Olivier GUIDRY, son of Claude GUIDRY & his second wife Anne MOÏSE, who lived in the same area at the time.  The Olivier in Joseph's household certainly was not the Olivier GUIDRY, son of Pierre GUIDRY & his second wife Claire BABIN of the Opelousas District.  That Olivier GUIDRY married Victoire SEMER at Atakapas in 1791.  Another Olivier GUIDRY of the Atakapas, son of Augustin GUIDRY & probably Théotiste BROUSSARD, married Félicité AUCOIN in the Atakapas in 1793, so this is not him, either.  Perhaps the Olivier in Joseph's household in 1795 was not a GUIDRY after all.  If not, what was he?  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 57.

20.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his widowed father & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Jean LONGUESPÉE & Marie HENRY, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Joseph, son [Charles GUÉDRY's] fils, charpentier, age 18, on the embarkation list, Josef, su [Carlos GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Charles GUÉDRY's] son, carpenter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 27th Family on the embarkation list & the 28th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his widowed father & 3 siblings; BRDR, 2:153, 339 (SJO-3, 7), his marriage record, calls him Josef GIDRY, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Francisco GIDRY & Pedro LEBLANC.

21.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls him Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents & 3 sisters; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph GUÉDRY, & does not gives his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls him Joseph, son [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fils, age 2, on the embarkation list, Josef, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] son, age 2, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 sisters.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

What happened to him?

22.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph-Firmin [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Firmin GUÉDRY, does not give his godparents' names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Joseph-Fermin, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Josef Fermin, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Joseph-Firmin GUÉDRY, son [of Pierre GUÉDRY's], a nursling, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:178, 339 (ASM-2, 63), his marriage record, calls him Fermin GUIDRY, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says he was from St.-Martin Parish, Nantes, France, that his wife was from the same parish, & the witnesses to his marriage were Ambroise HÉBERT & Josef LEJEUNE.

His wife was 6 year older.  

23.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Madeleine GUÉDRY.

24.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Malo GUÉDRY.

25.  Not in Wall of Names.  Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 376-78, Family No. 463, calls him Antoine GUÉDRY, says his parents were Charles GUÉDRY & his first wife Madeleine HÉBERT, that he was born c1754 but gives no birthplace, that his family was counted at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, that he reached France in Mar 1759 aboard du Supply with his parents & 3 sisters, & lists the parishes in the St.-Malo area where his family resided from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Antoine [GUÉDRY], gives his parents' names, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; NOAR, 3:151, 163 (SLC, M4, 87), his marriage record, calls him Antoine GUEDOY, native of Île St.-Jean, calls his parents Carlos [GUEDOY] & Magdalena HÉBERT, calls his wife Maria HUBERT, native of Grand-Pré in Acadia, says her parents were Pablo [HUBERT] & Margarita MENA[U/CE]SOU, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Pierre HÉBERT [HUBERT] & Joseph MEU[S/T]ON [MASON].  

The Robichaux volumes & his marriage record are clear--the fellow who married Marie HÉBERT at New Orleans in Jul 1780 was Antoine GUÉDRY/GUIDRY, son of Charles GUÉDRY/GUIDRY of Île Royale.  Antoine came to LA years before his widowed father & 6 siblings reached the colony in 1785 as part of the Seven Ships expedition from France.  Note that Antoine was in France as late as Dec 1775, when he accompanied his family to Nantes after the failure of the Leigne-les-bois venture in Poitou.  He would have been 21 then.  A possible scenario for his "early" arrival in LA could be:  while he was living in the Nantes area in the late 1770s, bored out of his mind, France entered the American Revolution against the hated British, so he became a crew member of one of the French privateers that went out to prey on British merchant ships & ended up in New Orleans, where he met & fell in love with an Acadian girl who just happened to be from the same family as his mother.  He was, after all, a great-grandson of Claude GUÉDRY dit Grivois dit La Verdure, so a sense of adventure was in his blood.  No matter, he was an Acadian who came to LA, so he belongs on this list.

Where did he & Marie settle in LA?  Did he settle in LA?

26.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Margueritte [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Margueritte, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, age 7, on the embarkation list, Margarita, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 7, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 siblings.  See also Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

She should not be confused with older sister Anne-Rosalie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, who died, age 3, the year this Marguerite was born.  So this Marguerite probably was named after her dead sister.  

What happened to her?

27.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls her Margueritte-Félicité [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents, 2 brothers, & an orphan; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls her Margueritte-Félicité, fille [of Jean-Bte GUÉDRY], à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Margarita Felicidad, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite-Félicité GUÉDRY, dgtr. [of Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY], nursling, on the complete listing, says she was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her parents, 2 brothers, & an orphan, & that she was baptized in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include her on the embarkation list, calls her Margarita Felicidad, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite-Félicité GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] daughter, a nursling, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with her father, 2 brothers, & an orphan, & & that they were from the ship Bon Papa.  

What happened to her?  She does not appear on any LA censuses.  Her mother, who does not appear on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont with the rest of the family, probably died soon after the family reached New Orleans in July 1785.  Her father then waited for relatives to arrive aboard the third ship, Le Beaumont, before taking her & her brothers to Ascension, where brother Francois appears on the 1791 census with uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  Marguerite-Félicité probably died by then.  

28.  Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 9L), calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, & lists her with her first husband & 4 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 18, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 all of her family survived; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 376-79, Family No. 463, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says she was at La Pointe-à-la-Jeunese, Île Royale, in 1752, that she reached France in Mar 1759 with her family aboard du Supply, & lists her family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 105, Family No. 133, calls her Marguerite-Victoire GUÉDRY, says she was baptized 9 Mar 1752 on Île Royale but gives no specific place, gives her parents'  names, calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, details her first marriage, says her first husband was born in 1733 in L'Assomption, Pigiguit, & gives his parents' names & the name of his first wife, whom he had married in England; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls her Marguerite-Victoire GUÉDRY & Marguerite [GUÉDRY], calls her mother Madeleine HÉBERT, details her birth, baptism, & marriage, says she was resident of St.-Similien, Nantes, at the time of her marriage, & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls her Marguerite GUÉDRY, sa [Jean-Charles BOUDRAU's] femme, age 34, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Charles BOUDROT's] wife, age 34, on the complete listing, says she was in the 18th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her first husband & 4 children, details her first marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & says daughter Henriette [BOUDROT] was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 3:388 (ASM-3, 84), her death/burial record, calls her Margarita GUIDRY, age 66 yrs., widow of Gregorio CHICO, but does not give her parents'  names.  See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 29, 49, 176. 

29.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Marie GUÉDRY.

30.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Marie [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, Family No. 141, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Jeanne GUÉDRY, but does not give her godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Marie, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, age 9, on the embarkation list, Maria, su [Josef GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Marie GUÉDRY, his [Joseph GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 9, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 siblings.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

31.  Wall of Names, 44, calls her Marie GUÉDRY.

32.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie-Rose [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents, 3 brothers, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Rose GUÉDRY, does not give her godparents' names, & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls her Marie-Rose, sa [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fille, age 6, on the embarkation list, Maria Rosa, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Rose GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] daughter, age 6, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her parents, 3 brothers, & a maternal cousin; BRDR, 2:341, 594 (ASM-2, 26), her marriage record, calls her Maria Rosa GUÉDRY of Parish St. Donaciano, Diocese of Nantes, France, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says both sets of parents were Acadians, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Josef AUCOIN & Luis DANTIN.

33.  Wall of Names, 18, calls her Monique GUÉDRY.  Her birth year is from the age given in the Spanish report of Feb 1768 & the Ascension census of 1777, not the Ascension census of 1770.  Why is she called Marie in the census of 1777?  Was Marie part of her name?  Until I can find corroboration for this, she shall remain simply Monique.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7, 18; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436.

34.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Ollivier GUÉDRY.

35.  Wall of Names, 18, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY.  

Wall of Names says he was married to Marguerite DUPUIS & that they had a daughter named Marie when they reached LA.  The marriage is confirmed in Pierre's final succession record, dated 19 Nov 1825, at St. Martin Parish Courthouse.  See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:446.  The succession record says only that Pierre & Marguerite had 2 children.  If Marie was one of those children, why didn't she appear in the Ascension census of 1770 with her father & stepmother?  She probably died as a child.  She was only 3 in 1768.  See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 7; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 436.  Various church records, such as Hébert, D., 2-A:449, 452, 459, as well as the Spanish report of Feb 1768, confirm that Pierre & Marguerite lived at St.-Luis de Natchez.  See Voorhies, J., p. 436.  Arsenault, Genealogy, 2499, says that Pierre's second wife was Marguerite MILLER & that he married her c1781, no place given.  He says nothing about the first marriage to Marguerite DUPUIS.  The marriage record of a daughter of Pierre & Marguerite MILLER says that Marguerite was from VA; the baptismal record of a granddaughter says that Marguerite was from SC, that her father, William MILLER, was from Scotland, & her mother, Anne KEVEN, from Ireland.  Other church records say that Marguerite was from Pensacola.  See Hébert, D., 1-A: 369, 373, 374, 2-A: 453, 454   First quote is from the brochure that accompanies the Robert Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville.  Several church records, dated as early as Oct 1812, call the elder Pierre "inhabitant at la grand-pointe."  See Hébert, D., 2-A:451, 456, 458.  Pierre's death record, source of the second quote, & his succession records, are in Hébert, D., 2-B:446.  His death/burial record says he was 93 when he died, but, according to the Spanish report of 1768 & 2 census records, supported by Arsenault, he was "only" 83--a patriarch nonetheless, having father at least17 children by 3 wives!  See De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 26; Robichaux, p. 7.

36.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife Louise BLANDIN & no children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 377, Family No. 463, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre-Jean GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Ambroise LONGUEPÉE & Marie-Francoise BOURG, & lists his family's residences in France from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 74, Family No. 139, calls him Pierre [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, charpentier, age 23, on the embarkation list, Pedro GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, carpenter, age 23, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 28th Family on the embarkation list & the 29th Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife Louise/Luisa BLANDIN, age 27, & no children.

His father's family is just above his on the passenger list of Le Beaumont.  

37.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY.

38.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, & lists him with his wife, 4 children, & his wife's nephew; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 103, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote to his father's profile above; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 47, Family No. 92, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, says he was born c1754 "in the parish of L'Assomption in Acadie," which was Pigiguit, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Pierre, baptized 21 Oct 1774, St.-Jacques, Châtellerault, Vienne, godson of Pierre LEBERT, journeyman, & Geneviève LEVRON, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, says he was born c1753 but gives no birthplace, that he was a seaman, details his marriage but does not gives his wife's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Charles, baptized 21 Oct 1776, St.-Donatien, Nantes, died age 6 1/2 & buried 16 Mar 1783, St.-Martin, Chantenay, daughter Marie-Rose, baptized 19 Apr 1779, St.-Donatien, Nantes, son Jean-Pierre, baptized 22 Jul 1781, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & son Joseph-Firmin, baptized 15 Oct 1784, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, ouvier, age 31, on the embarkation list, Pedro GUÉDRY, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, workman, age 31, on the complete listing, says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his wife, 4 children, & his wife's nephew; BRDR, 2:342 (ASM-3, 3), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro Janvier GUÉDRY, age 42 years,  married to Josefa LEBERT, but does not give his parents' names.  

Janvier is French for January.  This unusual middle name also can be found in 3 of his children's marriage records in BRDR, 2:340-42, where it is usually spelled Januario because the recording priest at Assumption was Spanish.

39.  Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Pierre [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 75, his birth/baptismal record, provides his middle name; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 8-9, calls him Pierre, son [Jean-Bte GUÉDRY's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, Pedro, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, says he was in the 28th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his parents, 2 siblings, & an orphan, &, calling him Pierre-Jean-Marie [GUÉDRY], says he was baptized in 1776 but gives no place of baptism; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, does not include him on the embarkation list, calls him Pedro, su [Juan Bautista GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre GUÉDRY, his [Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY's] son, no age given, on the complete listing, says he was in the 51st Family aboard Le Beaumont with his father, 2 siblings, & an orphan, & that they were from the ship Bon Papa.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497.

What happened to him?  He does not appear on any LA censuses.  His mother, who does not appear on the embarkation list of Le Beaumont with the rest of the family, probably died soon after the family reached New Orleans in July 1785.  His father then waited for relatives to arrive aboard the third ship, Le Beaumont, before taking him & his siblings to Ascension, where brother Francois appears on the 1791 census with uncle Joseph GUIDRY.  Pierre-Jean-Marie probably died by then.  

40.  Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre-Joseph [GUÉDRY], & lists him with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 47, Family No. 92, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Pierre GUÉDRY, says his godparents were Pierre LEBERT, journeyman, & Geneviève LEVRON, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 76, Family No. 142, calls him Pierre-Joseph [GUÉDRY], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39, calls him Pierre-Joseph, son [Pierre GUÉDRY's] fils, age 10, on the embarkation list, Pedro Josef, su [Pedro GUÉDRY's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre-Joseph GUÉDRY, his [Pierre GUÉDRY's] son, age 10, on the complete listing, says he was in the 32nd Family on the embarkation list & the 33rd Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with his parents, 3 siblings, & a maternal cousin, &, calling him Pierre [GUÉDRY], says he was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:78, 342 (ASM-2, 29), his marriage record, calls him Pedro GUÉDRY of Poitou, France, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Carlos BERGERON (her father) & Josef LEJEUNE (his stepfather).

His wife's father came to LA in Feb 1765 as a child with the party from Halifax via St.-Dominigue, today's Haiti, led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil but later moved to the river settlements before settling in the valley of Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite was born at Ascension in Aug 1780.  See BRDR, 2:78 (ASC-1, 65 & 66).  It was unusual for Acadians whose families had been in the colony so long to intermarry with Acadians who had been in France & did not come to LA until 1785.  

41.  Wall of Names, 33 (pl. 8L), calls her Renée-Élisabeth [GUÉDRY], & lists her with her parents & 3 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 32-33, calls her Reiné-Élisabette, sa [Joseph GUÉDRY's] fille, à la mamelle, on the embarkation list, Ryena Ysabel, de pecho, on the debarkation list, & Reiné-Élizabeth GUÉDRY, daughter [of Joseph GUÉDRY], nursling, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 8th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his parents & 3 siblings; BRDR, 3:390, 426 (ASM-2, 132), her marriage record, calls her Reine Elizabeth GEDRI (GUEDRY) of Paimboeuf, Brittany, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her husband was from St. Nicolas in Brittany, France, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean DAIGLE, Jean Baptiste GIROIR, & Etienne DUPUI.  See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 497; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1779-98, 25, 57, 156.

42.  Wall of Names, 44, calls him Suliac GUÉDRY.

43.  Wall of Names, 12, calls her Ursule GUÉDRY.  Her birth year is based on the age in the Spanish report of 1767, not the Opelousas census of 1777.  See De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 24; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 433.

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